Ghostty
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
[!NOTE] We are switching to Ghostty terminal from iterm2
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Prerequisites
Fonts should be installed as described in Essentials section.
Install
# if you haven't already installed ghostty, run:
brew install --cask --appdir=~/Applications ghostty
Configuration
Zero Configuration Philosophy - Ghostty is designed to work out of the box with no configuration for most users.
Extensions
Prompt
We will be using starship for prompt.
brew install starship
# after install, run:
echo 'eval "$(starship init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
You can further configure Prompt by editing ~/.config/starship.toml
. We providePreset starship.toml with some cool icons and kubecontext enabled.
Usage:
starship explain # Explains the currently showing modules
starship module golang # Prints a specific prompt module
starship print-config # Prints the computed starship configuration
ls & ll
We will be replacing ls with eza Features: Colours, Grid view, Long view, Tree view, Git integration, Filtering and Icons Note: The icon characters must be present in the font you are using in your terminal
brew install eza
Usage:
eza --long --header --group --git
We also added following alias to our alias file, which is sourced from ~/.zshrc
alias ls='eza --header --group --git --long'
alias ls.tree='eza --header --group --tree --level=2 --git --long --icons'
alias ll='eza --header --group --long --all'
alias ll.tree='eza --header --group --tree --level=2 --git --long --icons --all'
Shell Completions
We will be installing zsh-completions, zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting
brew install zsh-completions
# To opt-in to using completions for external commands
brew completions link
# You may also need to force rebuild `zcompdump`:
rm -f ~/.zcompdump; compinit
# Additionally, if you receive "zsh compinit: insecure directories" warnings when attempting to load these completions, you may need to run this:
chmod -R go-w $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh
compaudit | xargs chmod g-w
# install zsh-autosuggestions
brew install zsh-autosuggestions
source $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
# install zsh-syntax-highlighting
brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting
source $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
Search previous used commands using Arrows
↑ ↓
History Search
^ i
Completion Search
⌥ + ← →
Jump Word
⌘ + ← →
Jump line beginning / end
Add following to ~/.zshrc
Search Previous Used Commands using arrows. up and down arrows - history search
autoload -U history-search-end
zle -N history-beginning-search-backward-end history-search-end
zle -N history-beginning-search-forward-end history-search-end
bindkey "^[[A" history-beginning-search-backward-end
bindkey "^[[B" history-beginning-search-forward-end
Reference
Configuration Docs
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